# MLL4188 feelin like pure shit just wanna go to the pancake parlour again with someone xx
Pancakes! A classic breakfast dish. In my opinion though, they're the lowest tier on the breakfast trinity that is crepes, waffles, and pancakes. I said what I said.
This pancake recipe is a mess, tbh. True to my Asian roots, I didn't really measure anything out so this post is really me just guesstimating how much of everything I put in. It's going to be super messy because 1) it was my dad's recipe and he uses volumetric measurements, and 2) I went off and did my own thing after the dry ingredients and I prefer using weight measurements. I have actually gone ahead and tested the recipe again so the measurements below should work.
Good luck!
Ube Pancakes
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 5 mins (as in, it takes 5 mins to cook one pancake)
Pancake:
1 cup plain flour
1 egg
1/4 cup sugar (I used raw sugar but I think any would be fine here)
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
50g butter
100ml milk
100ml water
2 tsp ube extract
1/3 cup ube halaya
Optional toppings: Vanilla ice cream Crushed biscuits (I'd recommend graham, but I only had arrowroot) Ube glaze
1/2 tsp ube extract
1/4 cup ube halaya
1/2 cup icing sugar
3-5 tsbp milk (depending on your preferred consistency)
In a large bowl, mix your dry ingredients together and whisk to aerate and combine. Make a well in the centre.
In a microwavable bowl, combine the milk, butter, and ube halaya and heat until smooth and completely melted. I usually do a 1-1:30 mins on half power. You can have a taste of it to see if it's to your liking. I actually added more like 1/2 cup of ube halaya instead, but my parents said it was a tad sweet (w e a k) so I've put in 1/3 of a cup in the recipe to be safe. Once melted, add the ube extract and let it cool slightly.
Add the egg to the wet mixture and whisk until completely combined.
Pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and whisk to incorporate. Add the water gradually to thin it out until it's the right consistency.
Put a nonstick pan on the stove on low to medium-low heat and place 1/2 cup of batter. Swirl it around into a neat circle and let it sit on the stove.
When there's a lot of little bubbles or holes lining the edges of the pancake, run a flipper around the edges and test how well done the pancake is. If you can lift the pancake up through the centre without a lot of resistance, flip it.
Leave the pancake alone for 2-3 minutes. Don't press down on it with the flipper or move it around in the pan (unless it's wonky or not in the centre), just keep it on the stove and leave it alone. I'm not gonna lie, it's kinda an ugly pancake. You'd think the purple would make it look so bright and vibrant but it browns when it's cooked. My dad actually thought I made chocolate pancakes.
You're done! If you like plain pancakes or just happy to eat these with butter/maple syrup/honey/golden syrup/what have you, go ahead. If you want to level it up and make it Instagram-worthy, here's what I did:
To make the glaze, put the ube halaya in a large microwavable bowl and heat it for 30 seconds or until it's smooth. Add icing sugar and milk (in increments) and whisk until completely combined. Add the ube extract and more milk until you reach your desired consistency. I like the Krispy-Kreme level of drippy-ness.
Stack two or three pancakes neatly on a plate. Drizzle the glaze over the pancakes in a ~tastefully messy~ fashion and sprinkle the crushed biscuit crumbs around the edges of the pancake.
Add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and go over with another drizzle of glaze to perfectly paint that scoop of ice cream.
Admire your work and take as many pics as you can in the 2-3 minutes you have before the ice cream starts to melt and you have to eat it because you're hungry because you haven't eaten yet and your parents wanted to "try" the first pancake but ended up eating it all.
Here's some pics I took for my Insta story (shameless plug, @caramelthreads_ hehe), Wix did this dish dirty with the thumbnails so please click and view in fullsize. Thank u 🥺🥺❤️❤️
Time to eat! What do you want; butter, maple syrup, or Nutella?
I love pancakes. Yes, they're not my absolute fave, but they're pretty high up on my list of favourite breakfast dishes.
My dad is the Pancake King. My mom has a good pancake recipe too but I prefer my dad's. It's funny seeing them argue about the best way to cook them. He'd make a batch on the weekend, sometimes with additions like cheese and ham in the batter. It seems blasphemous to me, especially since even the idea of maple bacon pancakes or chicken and waffles baffles me. We bought a big 10kg bag of flour at the start of lockdown and he made pancakes after dinner for like two days straight. They make good snacks for him to take when he's off fishing.
On one of those nights, he was pouring the batter down on the pan for the first pancake and asked me if I wanted it. We had the following conversation:
"Do you want a pancake?"
"Not that one, the first one is always ugly."
"Not mine."
"Are you saying you make perfect pancakes from the get go?"
"Yes."
And lo and behold, it really was a perfect pancake from the get go. It was evenly golden brown, perfectly round, and completely cooked. That last one might seem like a given but let me tell you, I've avoided making pancakes ever since Year 7 because they always turn out raw for me. I also always mess up the flipping (nothing fancy, just flipping with the flipper), it ends up splattered all over the pan. That's why I'm the Crepe Queen, 1) because I prefer crepes and 2) because I can get them perfectly cooked (what a low bar). I can even toss them up in the air and flip them. With this dish though? Pancake Princess xx
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